{"id":12509,"date":"2011-06-15T20:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:04:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:04:45","slug":"why-do-boys-love-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12509","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Boys Love Star Wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on a Ta-Nehisi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2011\/06\/star-wars-live-action-television\/240510\/#comment-226564648\">post about Star Wars<\/a><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My wife once said, \"What's so cool about Star Wars? Why do boys love it?\"<\/p>\n<p>To which I replied, \"Star Wars is about kung-fu ninjas from outer space with swords made out of laser beams who fly spaceships and fight robots and aliens.  Surely I need not explain myself further, as the awesomeness should be self-evident.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment on a Ta-Nehisi post about Star Wars: My wife once said, \"What's so cool about Star Wars? Why do boys love it?\" To which I replied, \"Star Wars is about kung-fu ninjas from outer space with swords made out of laser beams who fly spaceships and fight robots and aliens. Surely I need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}